Qiao Youhua took a puff of his cigarette and said to General Zuo Quan: "Chief, I am also planning to discuss with you the next battle plan of our army." Come, follow me. ”

General Zuo Quan immediately stood up and followed Qiao Youhua to the operational map, which had two maps, one was a topographic map of Shanxi, and the other was a military map of North China.

Qiao Youhua pointed to the Taiyuan area on the topographic map of Shanxi and said: "Chief, originally, my strategic intention was to use part of my troops to block the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army from southern and middle Jin.

With the main force of our southward troops, the Japanese invaders in Taiyuan City were surrounded and annihilated, but in order to avoid the destruction of Taiyuan City in the war, the lives of the people in the city were devastated.

I decided to adopt a battle plan of besieging but not attacking, forcing the devils to flee out of the city, and ambushing and pursuing them in the field to destroy them! ”

Seeing General Zuo Quan nodding slightly, Qiao Youhua paused and continued: "Now that you have arrived with two regiments of reinforcements, I have a new idea, these two regiments are stronger, can we try to eliminate some of the devil reinforcements blocked south of the railway station."

In order to expand the results of the Battle of Taiyuan, I don't know what you think about this, chief? ”

Zuo Quan first smiled and nodded, and said approvingly: "Well, your idea is very good, but I think we can also look farther and set bigger goals." ”

Qiao Youhua looked at General Zuo Quan in surprise when he heard this, and said, "Bigger?" What do you mean, Chief? ”

Zuo Quan put down the teacup in his hand, pointed to the combat map of Shanxi, looked up at Qiao Youhua and said: "At present, our Eighth Route Army Jinchaji anti-Japanese base area, Jindong anti-Japanese base area, Luliangshan anti-Japanese base area, Jinnan anti-Japanese base area, military districts, columns, regular army, militia totaling more than 200,000 people.

It has launched a large-scale counteroffensive from three directions, to the south of Jin, and to the middle of Jin, and has achieved quite a lot of results so far, recovering dozens of large and small county towns and hundreds of villages and towns.

Of course, the main reason for this is because your Dragon Tooth Column has attracted a large number of Japanese puppet troops to return to Taiyuan, so you are the first-class heroes of the Shanxi Liberation Campaign. ”

After a pause, General Zuo Quan continued: "In addition, the Jin Sui Army, all departments of the Central Army, a total of two or three hundred thousand troops, are also actively counterattacking the war zone in various places.

In order to return to Taiyuan, the Japanese puppet army transferred seven or eight out of ten of their troops, and the remaining small forces were not enough to stop the advance of our counteroffensive troops from all directions.

Therefore, in ten days at the latest, we will be able to recover all the entire territory of Shanxi in addition to Taiyuan and northern Shanxi, and at that time, our hundreds of thousands of troops will join forces to encircle in one fell swoop, and strive to wipe out all the Japanese puppet troops gathered around Taiyuan in one fell swoop! ”

Qiao Youhua is so smart, he can not help but feel deeply shocked by this huge battle plan of General Zuo Quan, this is the real overall situation, hundreds of thousands of troops fought together, and swept away the territory of Shanxi in one fell swoop, and even although there were Japanese puppet troops in Suiyuan.

This is a real strategic military strategist, and without outstanding strategic vision, how can he serve as the deputy chief of the general staff of the 18th Army?

As soon as Qiao Youhua came into contact with this famous anti-Japanese general, he understood his outstanding military talent, nodded admiringly, and said: "The chief is worthy of being a military strategist from the first phase of Whampoa and the Frunze Military Academy. ”

"Haha, Comrade Youhua, don't say flattering words to me, your achievements are the world's attention, and many examples of battles can be called classics, enough to go down in history.

I have worked in our Eighth Route Army headquarters for so long, and I have some understanding of the overall strategic situation and all kinds of useful information, and this strategic idea was discussed by me and Mr. Peng, and I am just responsible for conveying it to you. ”

Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "Chief, I understand, what you and Mr. Peng mean is that they want me to do my best to hold back the more than 100,000-day puppet army in the Taiyuan area, buy time for my counteroffensive troops from all walks of life to gather, and then wipe them out in one fell swoop and completely recover the entire territory of Shanxi!" ”

General Zuo Quan slapped the table and said: "It is worthy of being an excellent front-line commander of our army who has been praised even by Chairman Mao, and it is thorough at one point!" That's right, what the boss of the headquarters meant was to ask our dragon tooth column, not to care about the size of the battle in front of us, and to do our best to drag down the Japanese puppet army in this area.

Wait for the arrival of my armies and annihilate them in one fell swoop! ”

"Well, I understand, chief, you don't think this will work, but the first and second divisions, a total of five infantry regiments, will blockade and surround Taiyuan City, and the west gate will also be blocked, surrounded on all sides.

The two infantry regiments you brought with you immediately detoured back to the southwest of the railway station to build a blocking position to prevent the Japanese puppet army south of the railway station from escaping around the railway station and passing through the Lazikou to the northwest of Jin! ”、

General Zuo Quan nodded and said, "Well, I think it's okay." ”

"Oh, by the way, in the previous battle, we cunned quite a few Japanese puppet army weapons and equipment, which can strengthen the firepower of the two regiments you brought. There are also two tank companies of our Dragon's Tooth Column, which have also driven over from the north, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they can arrive. Qiao Youhua said.

Zuo Quan was overjoyed when he heard this, and nodded happily: "This is great, we still have tank troops, which is a great advantage for us, with them, we can use them as a mobile assault force to rush back and forth to help our blocking troops when they are most needed!" Hit the devil hard! ”

"Hmm!"

"This time I came to the Longya Column, and it was the first time we fought side by side and commanded together, I hope we can work together to complete the tasks assigned to us by the headquarters and annihilate all the Japanese puppet troops in Shanxi!" General Zuo Quan stretched out his right hand to Qiao Youhua with a solemn face.

Qiao Youhua also hurriedly stretched out his right hand, and the two big hands were tightly clenched together.

Within the joint headquarters of the 108th and 109th Divisions.

The atmosphere was extremely solemn, and the two old devils, Yamaoka Chonghou and Xia Yuan Xiongmi, already knew the news of the failure of the breakout operation in Taiyuan City.

Moreover, it is also known that the Dragon's Tooth Column received a strong reinforcement!

The faces of the two of them were ugly, and their chief of staff and a few other subordinates were even more frowning, so anxious that their foreheads were sweating, how could this be good, the dragon tooth column increased its troops again, and more than 100,000 of their own expatriates and tens of thousands of troops defending the city in Taiyuan City became turtles in the urn.

After being silent for a while, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi gritted his teeth and said: "Shangangjun, we can't just give up lightly, we must organize another force to launch a fierce attack at night, force the army outside Taiyuan City to return to the railway station, and then plan for the evacuation of our expatriates in Taiyuan City." ”